Research Catalog

Title

Dakota women's work : creativity, culture, and exile / Colette A. Hyman.

Author

Hyman, Colette A., 1958-

Publication

St. Paul : Minnesota Historical Society Press, c2012.

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Holdings

Details

Description

240 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.

Summary

Ornately decorated objects created by Dakota women -- cradleboards, clothing, animal skin containers -- served more than a utilitarian function. They tell the story of colonization, genocide, and survival. Colette Hyman traces the changes in the lives of Dakota women, starting before the arrival of whites and covering the fur trade years, the years of treaties and shrinking lands, the brutal time of removal, starvation, and shattered families after 1862, and then the transition to reservation life, when missionaries and government agents worked to turn the Dakota into Christian farmers. The decorative work of Dakota women reflected all of this: native organic dyes and quillwork gave way to beading and needlework, items traditionally decorated for family gifts were also produced to sell to tourists and white collectors, work on cradleboards and animal skin bags shifted to the ornamenting of hymnals and the creation of star quilts.

Uniform Title

Project Muse UPCC books

Alternative Title

Creativity, culture, and exile

Subject

• Dakota Indians > Industries
• Dakota beadwork
• Dakota women > Economic conditions
• Dakota women > History
• Dakota women > Social conditions
• Indian leatherwork
• Quillwork

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: Women, work, and survival -- Work, art, and Dakota subsistence -- The fur trade and the treaty of 1837 -- Gender and resistance -- Separate survival -- Dakota tradition at Santee and Flandreau -- Work, gender, and the Dakota church -- Epilogue: Indian renaissance and Dakota women's art.

ISBN

• 9780873518505 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0873518500 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780873518581 (e-book)
• 0873518586 (e-book)

LCCN

^^2011047752

OCLC

762374174

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library